Alas! It seems to me that when one is as good as this at dissecting children who are to born, one can’t stiffen up enough to create them.

What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?

Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.

The world is going to become bloody stupid and from now on will be a very boring place. We’re lucky to be living now.

I have patience in all things – as far as the antechamber.

If you have time to whine then you have time to find solution.

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.

Its the actions one produces that will lead them toward the unknown.

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

You like? You are happy? Yes? Okay, go! Go in the street.

Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith.

To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.

Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.

We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years.

I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.